Imagine, the lights come up on a living room with no one in it, after a short time a phone on a low table starts to ring with an old-fashioned bell tone, it rings for a while and then falls silent. After a long silence the lights go down again. Almost nothing has happened but the scene is infinitely rich in unrealised possibilities. The lights come up again, same room, but this time there is someone sitting in an armchair on the other side of the room from the table with the phone. Is it a man or a woman, are they young or old, do they appear alert or distracted? The phone rings again. The person looks over towards the ringing phone with some surprise, or anxiety. The phone continues to ring, the person remains seated staring at the phone until it stops ringing, and continues looking towards it for some time until the lights again fade. In that suspension the idea of a summoning, a calling. To be called forth. The sound of a phone that can rouse you out of sleep, you didn't even know you were asleep until it wakes you. Or else, the same scene again and this time the person gets up and answers the phone. We hear one half of a conversation, or something less than a conversation. They might start talking rapidly to someone known, or it might be wrong number, or a cold caller - whatever it is, the tension is diffused, the story begins, the summons evaded.